Margaret Turner Petyarre:
Artist: Margaret Turner Petyarre
Skin Name: Petyarre
Language: Anmatyerre
Region: Utopia
Dreaming: Awelye (women ceremonial body paint designs), Bush Medicine, Bush Tucker, Bush Orange.
Margaret Turner Petyarre was born in 1945 at Lake Nash in Utopia and belongs to the Eastern Anmatyerr language group.

Margaret painted on canvas in the early 1990’s and her work was taken to Sydney for exhibitions in 2000.

In 1988 Margaret was one of the artists involved with the widely publicised Summer Batik Project, the exhibits which are held in the Robert Holme`s a Court Collection. She was also selected as a finalist for the 2001 Australian Business Arts Foundation Awards.

The subjects of her paintings include body paint, and her Dreamings of bush medicine and bush tucker, including the bush orange.
In her depictions of traditional stories, she has moved from the fine dotting technique employed in her batik work to realist elements and now has reduced the iconographic elements to a minimalist use of dots.
Selected Exhibitions:

1996, Nangara; Stichting Singt-Jan Brugge
2004, Redrock Gallery, Melbourne

Selected Collections:
•    Museum of Victoria, Melbourne
•    National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
•    The Holmes a Court Collection
•    Ebes Collection